Seventy Years of Exploration in Oceanography Part 1 pot

[...]... panel Finally, as I encourage you to read about Dr Munk here, I suggest you note his open-minded view of relationships Here was a man intensely interested in national security issues yet thriving in a liberal environment I think he saw the two missions: enhancing security in a free nation and gaining knowledge about the processes of Foreword – Paul Gaffney xi our planet as reinforcing, not competing Here... Conference in Easton in 19 61 (Fig I .1) Walter immediately agreed to share with us his recollections on the nearly seventy years of his path-breaking contributions in a sheer amazing range of topics, from ocean waves, internal waves, ocean currents, tides, tsunamis, sea level, microseisms and the rotation of the earth to ocean acoustic tomography With “you guys” Markus was referring to HvS and the various partners... partners HvS had invited to join him in conducting a series of interviews of retired colleagues .1 While HvS was motivated generally in understanding the complex processes by which scientific knowledge was passed from one generation to the next, his colleagues, chosen on the basis of their close professional and personal relationship to the interviewed person, were interested in discovering more about... and interpretations Knowledge obtained from earlier research is either encoded or obliterated in present knowledge – continuously transferred from tree ring to tree ring – or forgotten If something has not been incorporated from cohort to cohort of scientists, it is considered to be irrelevant and of little interest Walter’s results have long become an integral part of the community knowledge, of accepted... Hans Hinzpeter – see http://coast.gkss.de/staff/storch/interview.htm xiii xiv Preface Fig I .1 Taking a break from “The Discussion” (2008) (Susanna and Klaus Hasselmann with Walter at Torrey Pines State Park in San Diego, California) at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California When he later became the director of the newly created Max Planck Institute of Meteorology (MPIM) in Hamburg,... Meteorology (MPIM) in Hamburg, in 19 75, Walter, in turn, was a frequent visitor to Hamburg as a member of the Institute’s Scientific Advisory Committee HvS, before becoming director of the Institute for Coastal Oceanography at Geesthacht, near Hamburg, in 20 01, was senior scientist at MPIM and had therefore also been exposed to Walter’s in uence Both interviewers have been inspired not only by Walter’s... pleasure in which we were not disappointed But the discussions with Walter also turned out to be exceptional in another respect What started off as one of Hans’ interview projects, developed in the course of editing, as Walter came up with more and more stories and anecdotes, and more and more of Walter’s extraordinary scientific career and oceanographic and geophysical explorations surfaced, into a fascinating... interweaving of the thrill of scientific discovery with the very human encounters involved in the complex process of discovery will provide equally stimulating reading for the specialist and non-specialist Scientific discourse develops like the trunk of a tree.2 Each year, a new tree ring is formed based on the most recent findings incorporating previous results – from the most recent tree ring, so to... motivations that had inspired their mentors The conversations with Walter, carried out by interviewers one and two generations his junior, promised to be exceptional in both respects KH enjoyed four extremely stimulating and formative years from 19 61 to 19 64 as a young Assistant Professor in Walter Munk’s newly established Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics 1 Scientists interviewed by HvS... Walter Munk, an icon in oceanography, had just given a wonderful talk in a symposium in honor of his 90th birthday, sweeping a grand circle from his earliest work with Chip Cox on airborne measurements of ocean surface roughness to the latest satellite data – not simply a review, but the struggle of an active scientist opening up new perspectives – as inspiring and stimulating as when one of us (KH) first . w1 h1" alt="" Seventy Years of Exploration in Oceanography Hans von Storch  Klaus Hasselmann Seventy Years of Exploration in Oceanography A Prolonged Weekend Discussion with Walter Munk 12 3 Hans. struggle of an active scientist opening up new perspectives – as inspiring and stimulating as when one of us (KH) first met him at the Ocean Waves Conference in Easton in 19 61 (Fig. I .1) . Walter. rotation of the earth to ocean acoustic tomography. With “you guys” Markus was referring to HvS and the various partners HvS had invited to join him in conducting a series of interviews of retired